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Human Capital: Increasing Agencies' Use of New Hiring Flexibilities
Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Improving the federal hiring process is critical given that the executive branch hired nearly 95,000 new employees during fiscal year 2003 and significant hiring may continue over the next few years. In May 2003, GAO issued a report highlighting several key problems in the federal hiring process. That report concluded that the process needed improvement and included recommendations to address the problems. Last month, GAO issued a follow-up to that report and testified before Congress on the status of recent efforts to improve the federal hiring process. As part of this work, GAO also assessed the extent to which federal agencies are using two new hiring flexibilities: category rating and direct-hire authority. Category rating permits an agency manager to select a job candidate placed in a best-qualified category rather than being limited to three candidates under the "rule of three." Direct-hire authority allows an agency to appoint individuals to positions without adherence to certain competitive examination requirements when there is a severe shortage of qualified candidates or a critical hiring need. Today, GAO's statement highlights the extent to which agencies are using the new hiring flexibilities, points out …
Date:
July 13, 2004
Creator:
United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Child And Family Services Reviews: States and HHS Face Challenges in Assessing and Improving State Performance
Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In 2001, the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF) implemented the Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSR) to increase states' accountability. The CFSR uses states' data profiles and statewide assessments, as well as interviews and an on-site case review, to measure state performance on 14 outcomes and systemic factors, including child well-being and the provision of caseworker training. The CFSR also requires progress on a program improvement plan (PIP); otherwise ACF may apply financial penalties. This testimony is based on our April 2004 report and addresses (1) ACF's and the states' experiences preparing for and conducting the statewide assessments and on-site reviews; (2) ACF's and the states' experiences developing, funding, and implementing items in PIPs; and (3) any additional efforts that ACF has taken beyond the CFSR to improve state performance. For the April 2004 report, we surveyed all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico regarding their experiences throughout the CFSR process, visited 5 states to obtain first-hand information, and conducted a content analysis of all 31 available PIPs as of January 1, 2004. We also interviewed HHS …
Date:
May 13, 2004
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Medicare: Payment Changes Are Needed for Assistants-at-Surgery
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Medicare pays for assistant-atsurgery services under both the hospital inpatient prospective payment system and the physician fee schedule. Payments under the physician fee schedule are limited to a few health professions. In 2001, Congress directed GAO to report on the potential impact on the Medicare program of allowing physician fee schedule payments to Certified Registered Nurse First Assistants for assistant-at-surgery services. This report examines: (1) who serves as an assistant-atsurgery, (2) whether health professionals who perform the role must meet a uniform set of professional requirements, and (3) whether Medicare's payment policies for assistants-at-surgery are consistent with the goals of the program and, if not, whether there are alternatives that would help attain those goals. GAO analyzed information provided by physician and other health professional associations and Medicare payment data."
Date:
January 13, 2004
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Comptroller General's Forum: High-Performing Organizations: Metrics, Means, and Mechanisms for Achieving High Performance in the 21st Century Public Management Environment
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "As we face the challenges of the 21st century, the federal government must strive to build high-performing organizations. Nothing less than a fundamental transformation in the people, processes, technology, and environment used by federal agencies to address public goals will be necessary to address public needs. In high-performing organizations, management controls, processes, practices, and systems are adopted that are consistent with prevailing best practices and contribute to concrete organizational results. Ultimately, however, the federal government needs to change its culture to become more results-oriented, client- and customer-focused, and collaborative in nature. On November 6, 2003, GAO hosted a forum to discuss what it means for a federal agency to be high-performing in an environment where results and outcomes are increasingly accomplished through partnerships that cut across different levels of government and different sectors of the economy. The forum included discussions of the metrics, means, and mechanisms that a federal agency should use to optimize its influence and contribution to nationally important results and outcomes. The forum included representatives of the public, not-for-profit, and for-profit sectors as well as academia who are knowledgeable of what it takes …
Date:
February 13, 2004
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Minutes: Intelligence Joint Cross-Service Group, October 13, 2004]
BRAC 2005 Intelligence Joint Cross-Service Group Meeting Minutes of October 13, 2004. The document is redacted.
Date:
October 13, 2004
Creator:
United States. Department of Defense.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Social Security and Medicare Taxes and Premiums: Fact Sheet
Financing for social security -- Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance -- and the Hospital Insurance part of Medicare is provided primarily by taxes levied on wages and net self-employment income. Financing for the Supplementary Medical Insurance portion of Medicare is provided by premiums from enrollees and payments from the government. This report describes these taxes and premiums.
Date:
January 13, 2004
Creator:
Nuschler, Dawn
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Brief Facts About Congressional Pensions
This report contains a table that lists the number of retired Members of Congress and the average amount of congressional pension they receive in retirement.
Date:
January 13, 2004
Creator:
Purcell, Patrick J.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Integrating automated shading and smart glazings with daylightcontrols
None
Date:
February 13, 2004
Creator:
Selkowitz, Stephen & Lee, Eleanor
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Predicted Effects of Prescribed Burning and Timber Management on Forest Recovery and Sustainability at Fort Benning, Georgia
The objective of this work was to use a simple compartment model of soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) dynamics to predict forest recovery on degraded soils and forest sustainability, following recovery, under different regimes of prescribed fire and timber management. This report describes the model and a model-based analysis of the effect of prescribed burning and forest thinning or clearcutting on stand recovery and sustainability at Fort Benning, GA. I developed the model using Stella{reg_sign} Research Software (High Performance Systems, Inc., Hanover, NH) and parameterized the model using data from field studies at Fort Benning, literature sources, and parameter fitting. The model included (1) a tree biomass submodel that predicted aboveground and belowground tree biomass, (2) a litter production submodel that predicted the dynamics of herbaceous aboveground and belowground biomass, (3) a soil C and N submodel that predicted soil C and N stocks (to a 30 cm soil depth) and net soil N mineralization, and (4) an excess N submodel that calculated the difference between predicted plant N demands and soil N supplies. There was a modeled feedback from potential excess N (PEN) to tree growth such that forest growth was limited under conditions of N deficiency. Two …
Date:
April 13, 2004
Creator:
Garten, C. T. Jr.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Soil Carbon Dynamics Along an Elevation Gradient in the Southern Appalachian Mountains
The role of soil C dynamics in the exchange of CO{sub 2} between the terrestrial biosphere and the atmosphere is at the center of many science questions related to global climate change. The purpose of this report is to summarize measured trends in environmental factors and ecosystem processes that affect soil C balance along elevation gradients in the southern Appalachian Mountains of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, USA. Three environmental factors that have potentially significant effects on soil C dynamics (temperature, precipitation, and soil N availability) vary in a predictable manner with altitude. Forest soil C stocks and calculated turnover times of labile soil C increase with elevation, and there is an apparent inverse relationship between soil C storage and mean annual temperature. Relationships between climate variables and soil C dynamics along elevation gradients must be interpreted with caution because litter chemistry, soil moisture, N availability, and temperature are confounded; all potentially interact in complex ways to regulate soil C storage through effects on decomposition. Some recommendations are presented for untangling these complexities. It is concluded that past studies along elevation gradients have contributed to a better but not complete understanding of environmental factors and processes that potentially affect …
Date:
April 13, 2004
Creator:
Garten C. T. Jr.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Unified Model of Secondary Electron Cascades in Diamond
In this paper we present a detailed and unified theoretical treatment of secondary electron cascades that follow the absorption of an X-ray photon. A Monte Carlo model has been constructed that treats in detail the evolution of electron cascades induced by photoelectrons and by Auger electrons following inner shell ionizations. Detailed calculations are presented for cascades initiated by electron energies between 0.1-10 keV. The present paper expands our earlier work by extending the primary energy range, by improving the treatment of secondary electrons, especially at low electron energies, by including ionization by holes, and by taking into account their coupling to the crystal lattice. The calculations describe the three-dimensional evolution of the electron cloud, and monitor the equivalent instantaneous temperature of the free-electron gas as the system cools. The dissipation of the impact energy proceeds predominantly through the production of secondary electrons whose energies are comparable to the binding energies of the valence (40-50 eV) and of the core electrons (300 eV). The electron cloud generated by a 10 keV electron is strongly anisotropic in the early phases of the cascade (t {le} 1 fs). At later times, the sample is dominated by low energy electrons, and these are scattered …
Date:
October 13, 2004
Creator:
Ziaja, B; London, R A & Hajdu, J
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Mannford Eagle (Mannford, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 24, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Weekly newspaper from Mannford, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 13, 2004
Creator:
Retherford, Bill R.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Cherokeean Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 155, No. 34, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 13, 2004
Creator:
Whitehead, Marie
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 56, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 13, 2004
Daily student newspaper from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date:
January 13, 2004
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 75, Ed. 1 Friday, February 13, 2004
Daily student newspaper from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date:
February 13, 2004
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The University News (Irving, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Weekly student newspaper from the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas that includes campus news and commentaries along with advertising.
Date:
October 13, 2004
Creator:
Dickens, Jodi
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Karen DeVinney to Sterling Houston and Sandra Mayor - August 13, 2004]
Letter from Karen DeVinney, managing editor from the University of North Texas press, to Sandra Mayo and Sterling Houston. She writes to both to inform them of edits that have been made to a manuscript titled Myth, Magic, and Farce. The manuscript is a collection of plays by Houston, a prominent San Antonio playwright. DeVinney goes on to talk about other stages that need to be met before publication.
Date:
August 13, 2004
Creator:
DeVinney, Karen
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0248
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Bingo TVNet Corporation may legally conduct BingoTV within the State of Texas (RQ-0198-GA)
Date:
September 13, 2004
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0249
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether certain deed restrictions apply to property owned by Texas Southern University, on which the university is constructing privatized student housing (RQ-0199-GA)
Date:
September 13, 2004
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0259
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether the attorney representing the state under chapter 59 of the Code of Criminal Procedure may transfer forfeited property to the attorney's own office (RQ-0211-GA)
Date:
October 13, 2004
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0260
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Constitutionality of the Texas grandparent access statute, section 153.433, Family Code, in light of the United States Supreme Court's decision in Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57 (2000) (RQ-0215-GA)
Date:
October 13, 2004
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0281
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether the Texas Workforce Commission Civil Rights Division is properly interpreting the equal employment opportunity training requirement of Labor Code section 21.556(a) (RQ-0240-GA)
Date:
December 13, 2004
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 7, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Weekly student newspaper from Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas that includes campus and local news along with advertising.
Date:
October 13, 2004
Creator:
Fowler, Whitney
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0133
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether a certain promotional campaign violates chapter 40 of the Business and Commerce Code, the Contest and Gift Giveaway Act (RQ-0080-GA)
Date:
January 13, 2004
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History